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What grease for ball joints?

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65cpe69mach1

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What grease do you guys use for ball joints and tie rods?
 
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Just any ordinary chassis grease will do. I favor Moly-type myself.
 
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I asked the guy at O'Reily's and he just kinda shrugged and started reading the various grease tubes and said it doesn't matter.

He didn't fill me with confidence so thought I'd ask you guys.
 

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i work in a truck repair shop so i got to expitiment a little
a nlgi #2 hight temp seems to work the best fot high speed parts like wheelbearings and u joints but unless its a moly it tends to "dry out" on slower parts like tie rods and ball joints
plain grease works really well on biger contact areas that dont se much pressure like clutch linkage and the like

but for slower moving parts get a moly.

the best grease ive seen so far that works good on everything is cenex high temp moly
 
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